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central america / caribbean / the left / non-anarchist press Saturday January 12, 2019 - 19:30 by Nathan Legrand and Éric Toussaint
The violent repression against demonstrators protesting brutal neoliberal policies, which resulted in more than 300 people being killed by regime forces since April 2018, is just one of the reasons why different leftist social movements have condemned the Nicaraguan regime led by President Daniel Ortega and Vice-president Rosario Murillo. The Left has many more reasons to denounce the policies of the regime. To understand this, we must go back to 1979. ... read full story / add a comment
central america / caribbean / the left / non-anarchist press Thursday May 10, 2018 - 03:06 by Trevor Evans
In 1979 a popular uprising led by the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) overthrew the U.S.-backed Somoza-family dictatorship which had ruled Nicaragua since the 1930s, and in 1984 the Sandinistas and their presidential candidate, Daniel Ortega, decisively won the country’s first free elections in decades. The Sandinistas introduced a major programme of land redistribution and a significant expansion of public health care and education services. However, initial gains were undermined under the impact of an armed opposition (‘the contra’) organized and promoted by the U.S., a collapse of international raw material prices in the early 1980s, and Sandinista policy errors, including an over-ambitious programme of large-scale investments. ... read full story / add a comment
central america / caribbean / the left / non-anarchist press Wednesday November 30, 2016 - 19:59 by Slavoj Zizek
In the last decades, Cuban “socialism” continued to live only because it didn’t yet notice it was already dead. ... read full story / add a comment
central america / caribbean / the left / non-anarchist press Wednesday December 04, 2013 - 21:48 by Mark Weisbrot
Hondurans are revolting against the US-backed outcome. There are too many reports of rampant vote-buying, fraud and violence. ... read full story / add a comment
central america / caribbean / the left / non-anarchist press Wednesday June 05, 2013 - 00:36 by KAT
Besides being a highly respected professor at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, and the author of several involved volumes such as the Humanities Press publication In the Shadow of Powers: Dantѐs Bellegarde in Haitian Social Thought, Dr. Patrick Bellegarde-Smith has yet another mark to distinguish him. He is the grandson of noted intellectual, author, diplomat, Haitian militant Dantes Bellegarde and the grand nephew of Argentine Bellegarde, one of Haiti’s most influential educators of the nineteenth century. Bellegarde-Smith is a sought-after lecturer and expert, in addition to being regarded as one of the foremost experts in the field of African diasporic social thought, religion, and philosophy (he is the editor of the bookFragments of Bone: Neo-African Religions in a New World). Born in Haiti, Bellegarde-Smith lives and teaches in the United States, but it’s almost as if he never left. The bulk of his published books center on Haiti, and his title Haiti: The Breached Citadel, which the professor and thought tank reissued in the early 1990s, is one of the most referred-to books written about Haiti. ... read full story / add a comment
central america / caribbean / the left / non-anarchist press Monday December 13, 2010 - 00:50 by Randall Robinson
Death awaits us all, of course. Yet there are some deaths that rip from the earth that which is clear, that which is visionary, that which is moral, that which is true. ... read full story / add a comment
central america / caribbean / the left / non-anarchist press Thursday June 11, 2009 - 06:37 by J-J D
Haiti - where foreign powers say that all that's missing is democracy, good governance and stronger institutions. Yet when a fairly elected parliament votes overwhelmingly in favour of an increase in the pathetically low minimum daily wage, all the private sector has to do to block the move is to threaten to sack half of the garment assembly sector workforce if the increase goes ahead. What does the international community do? Force the private sector to back down? No it unleashes the 'security' forces to violently repress university students who took to the streets to try and force the president to make the minimum wage increase legislation official.... ... read full story / add a comment
central america / caribbean / the left / non-anarchist press Wednesday August 16, 2006 - 14:44 by Mario Pierre
This is a text of comments made by individuals about the Workers' Movement, Batay Ouvriye on Indybay. Those comments reflect an ideological class struggle between those who support the Workers' Movement and those who ally themselves with the reactionary ruling classes and imperialism to isolate and destroy the only genuine, independent and combative Workers' Movement in Haiti today. ... read full story / add a comment
central america / caribbean / the left / other libertarian press Sunday April 16, 2006 - 08:25 by CHAN
A Situation of Terror: Haitian Union Leader on the 2004 coup Paul chry interviewed by Keven Skerrett, ZNET, Nov. 4, 2005 In late September 2005, the General Secretary of the Confédération des travailleurs haitiens (CTH - one of Haiti’s biggest unions), Paul “Loulou” Chéry, visited Ottawa and Montréal. Chéry was on a speaking tour organized to allow Canadian and Québecois trade unionists direct access to a trade union voice from Haiti. Kevin Skerrett, a trade union researcher active with the Canada Haiti Action Network, interviewed Loulou on September 26. The interview focused particular attention on the perspective of Haiti’s labour movement on the February 29, 2004 coup d’état that overthrew Haiti’s elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, along with thousands of other elected officials. The following is a translation and transcript of that interview. *** Kevin Skerrett: First of all, can you introduce yourself a bit, and give us ... read full story / add a comment
central america / caribbean / the left / non-anarchist press Sunday April 16, 2006 - 08:24 by From HLLN
HLLN Regarding OPL and Batay Ouvriye By Marguerite Laurent, June 15, 2005 The primary complaints of the OPL Party and Batay Ouvriye against President Aristide is that he sold out to the neoliberalist. Yet, out of 11 state owned enterprises only 2 of the smallest enterprises (cement & flour mill) were privatized and said privatization occured under President Preval, not President Aristide and, most importantly were passed by an OPL controlled legislature, not a Fanmi Lavalas-controlled legislature. It is time for pro-democracy peace and justice activists to confront these so-called "leftist" in Haiti, with international reach, for they are desperate to regain some legitimacy. For us, at HLLN, this CPUSA resolution brings into sharp focus how the Batay Ouvriyes, OPL, MPP's et al. are continuing to stand against the people of Haiti while projecting, in the international community, this idea that they speak for the people. They don't. Cha ... read full story / add a comment
central america / caribbean / the left / non-anarchist press Saturday February 04, 2006 - 03:33 by Monthly Review
1162.gif, image/gif, 92x91 Workers' Rights ARE Human Rights -- Not Just in the USA, but around the World by Kim Scipes Chicago, 2005 In the middle of a blizzard in Chicago on December 8, 2005, I stood with about 250-300 union members and supporters at the Haymarket Memorial, chanting, "Workers' Rights Are Human Rights." This was one of a number of rallies around the country that the AFL-CIO organized, preceding International Human Rights Day on December 10, to help expand the concept of human rights to include American workers' rights and ultimately to help build support for a reform of American labor laws, so terribly needed. Yet, shortly before the AFL-CIO's human rights rallies, Jeb Sprague reported on November 18 that the AFL-CIO's Solidarity Center had been providing money to a workers' organization in Haiti: Batay Ouvriye. The report says that the amount provided was small -- $3,500 -- but also that the Solidarity Center's Je ... read full story / add a comment |
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